Okay, if we're going by composition, the first few in the order they come to mind:
1. Birdcage
I'm a sucker for things in 3/4 time, for starters. The guitar makes it sound like a melancholy walk on a grey, rainy day. Then the storm arrives- there's the shocking swerve halfway through the song which one reviewer famously described as "a nightingale hitting a turbine". It feels like by rights it shouldn't work, but somehow he pulls it off and by the second time you listen you can't imagine the song any other way. Then there's the arrangement of the rock band vs strings for the second half, somehow painstakingly intricate even as it spirals out of control, and finally, the slow elegiac melody from the beginning resurfaces amongst the chaos to tie it all together.
A track that doesn't get a lot of attention, this is probably GACKT at his most experimental. I'm not sure how I feel about him sampling Hitler, but the composition of music out of such an array of random noises takes
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I have to agree with all three of these.
Especially 4th, which you never hear anything about but it is really so brillaint for showing what he can accomplish creatively. For people that enjoy hearing his falsetto, it is a song that displays it so openly...
In that sense, Illness Illusion is also one that goes under the radar but displays with vocal abilities and range in an unbelievably smooth transition.
I don't think anything needs to be said beyond this... Just showcase of his genuine skill as a composer. It is stripped, simple and yet so stunningly beautiful that everytime I listen, I cannot help but to be reminded that this is what music is, what music can be.
World stops for me, with this song and especially this live version of it.
I don't know if people know about his, but Chachamaru gets 50% of the music composition credits since the Mars album (aka not for the previous singles), and 100% of the guitar composition as well.
I still remember something... Chacha didn't join until the recording of the Mars album (hence he didn't appear in the Mirror video for example), and there's an interview around on the first impression... Chacha went into the studio and Gackt showed him some guitar samples that he had been working on, and Chacha told him straight "man, this sucks". XD
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1. Birdcage
I'm a sucker for things in 3/4 time, for starters. The guitar makes it sound like a melancholy walk on a grey, rainy day. Then the storm arrives- there's the shocking swerve halfway through the song which one reviewer famously described as "a nightingale hitting a turbine". It feels like by rights it shouldn't work, but somehow he pulls it off and by the second time you listen you can't imagine the song any other way. Then there's the arrangement of the rock band vs strings for the second half, somehow painstakingly intricate even as it spirals out of control, and finally, the slow elegiac melody from the beginning resurfaces amongst the chaos to tie it all together.
I <3 it. (And then there's the lyrics)
2. 4th
A track that doesn't get a lot of attention, this is probably GACKT at his most experimental. I'm not sure how I feel about him sampling Hitler, but the composition of music out of such an array of random noises takes ( ... )
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Especially 4th, which you never hear anything about but it is really so brillaint for showing what he can accomplish creatively. For people that enjoy hearing his falsetto, it is a song that displays it so openly...
In that sense, Illness Illusion is also one that goes under the radar but displays with vocal abilities and range in an unbelievably smooth transition.
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I don't think anything needs to be said beyond this...
Just showcase of his genuine skill as a composer.
It is stripped, simple and yet so stunningly beautiful that everytime I listen, I cannot help but to be reminded that this is what music is, what music can be.
World stops for me, with this song and especially this live version of it.
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Chacha didn't join until the recording of the Mars album (hence he didn't appear in the Mirror video for example), and there's an interview around on the first impression...
Chacha went into the studio and Gackt showed him some guitar samples that he had been working on, and Chacha told him straight "man, this sucks". XD
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Future
Cube
Kono yoru ga owaru mae ni
Blue
there are so many others though! >.
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rain
birdcage
Ash
In Flames
LOST ANGELS
雪月花 ーthe end in silenceー
These are my best (lucky number) 7 in no particular order (well, in order of release). Basically the "hammy" songs on his albums.
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